Art

Courtesy of Kate Eggleston-Wirtz

Suicide in Salford: The ‘big black scary clown’ no-one is talking about

In the last five years, 109 people have died of suicide in Salford alone. Local charity Start is raising awareness of this issue with its Surviving Suicide Exhibition.

Salford marks 80th anniversary of ‘Love on the Dole’ influential book

Salford remembers Walter Greenwood on the 80th anniversary of the influential book ‘Love on the Dole’.The book was published in the 1930’s.

Poet donates proceeds from book about life on streets to Emmaus

After experiencing alcoholism and homelessness, Séamus Fox travelled the UK speaking to the homeless at Emmaus schemes and turned their stories into a book.